Abraham Lincoln Quotes
If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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The two things I always have to fight for are rest and food... I'm just grateful that I have the energy by the end of the day to do a performance.
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Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
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A noun is not a name you give something. It is something you watch becoming itself, and you have to have the patience to find out what it is.
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Those who profess the faith of Life regard the ideals of mankind as an expression of man's higher needs. Ideals which were once incentives to development thus become a drag upon it whenever life's needs demand new forms that are not recognised by the prevailing idealism.
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If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ‘all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
